THE PROCESSION OF CREATION

Meher Baba

God in Infinite and Eternal. And His Imagination is also Infinite
and Eternal. God's Imagination is unending, and the Creation which
is the product of His Imagination goes on endlessly expanding.

How can man imagine this Imagination with his finite imagining?
His highest flights of imagination (intellect) can never bring him
the faintest idea of God's Imagination. And God's Reality is beyond
this again. When you cannot imagine even the Imagination of God, how
infinitely more impossible it is to fathom His Reality.

In what is called space numberless universes are continuously
created, sustained and destroyed. This procession of creation
continues so long as God goes on imagining. And when God's
Imagination is suspended, as it is at moments in Eternity when God
withdraws Himself into His Sound Sleep State (just as a man's
imagination ceases when he is in deep sleep), the Creation is
withdrawn and dissolved (Mahapralaya).

Creation, Preservation and Dissolution are based on Ignorance. In
fact there is no such thing as creation, so preservation and
dissolution never actually occur. The very cosmos has no foundation
save that of Ignorance.

Ignorance believes: The cosmos is a reality; birth, death, old
age, wealth, honour are real.